Just for fun...

[PedalUma]

I am pretty sure a race wouldn't be the same without the sound (albeit through hearing protection) and feel of ICE.

There is an electric car with in-cabin ICE audio simulation and a manual transmission emulator. It would be fun if you could make it sound, rev, and have pull/torque and HP curves like a selection of classic cars. Such as, today I want to drive a 1971 Corvette.

 

[PatriciaK]

Today’s Gag

Every Saturday morning our Resort biking group of 20+ regular riders assembles for an hour ride then a return to our Bistro for post-ride food & libations.

Today, per a special request to our leader I was granted a few minutes of the pre-ride orientation time to share some new and emerging information. I began my story by sharing …

“As a regular member of an international ebike forum, I have come across some new discussion on this point:

The Society for Safely Living, otherwise identified as the SSL, has recently completed a successful lobbing effort to the current Whitehouse Administration whereby they claim e-bikes, like e-vehicles require additional sound enhancements to alert and protect citizens from potential collisions.

Per these successful SSL lobbying efforts a new bill has been introduced and passed requiring all e-bikes to be equipped with these sound enhancement devices — whereupon I held up for all to see a King of Clubs playing card and a wooden clothespin.

The joke carried well to loud laughter and clapping.

But seriously, similar to how you ordered your latest free-delivery COVID tests, your ebike sound enhancement kit will soon be available for free online ordering. Be sure to contact your Congressperson for more information

Be sure to do so by 01 April...

 

[Dorkyman]

Saw a 2000GT many years ago parked at Longo Toyota, the largest Toyota dealership in the world and located in SoCal.

But the ultimate car to me is the convertible version specially made by Toyota for James Bond in "You Only Live Twice." Seems Sean Connery was too tall to fit inside, so they made two convertibles for use in the film. One apparently has been totaled and the other is now at the Toyota Museum.

Ten facts about James Bond's Toyota 2000GT

Do you know about James Bond's Toyota 2000GT? Check out ten facts about the British spy and the car featured in You Only Live Twice.

mag.toyota.co.uk

 

[Roamers]

There is an electric car with in-cabin ICE audio simulation and a manual transmission emulator. It would be fun if you could make it sound, rev, and have pull/torque and HP curves like a selection of classic cars. Such as, today I want to drive a 1971 Corvette.

Mine was 1970 Challenger Convertible.

 

[Roamers]

 

[PedalUma]

Use sunscreen.

 

[Art Deco]

Mine was 1970 Challenger Convertible.

I had the 1970 Charger ... with the 383. A "shade tree" mechanic's dream come true...

 

[Rome]

I'm Toyota believer.
I saw land cruiser set world record for being driven submerge in deep water. It was battery powered
Google it.
I look like picture I included

 

[Art Deco]

I'm Toyota believer.
I saw land cruiser set world record for being driven submerge in deep water. It was battery powered
Google it.
I look like picture I included

I also am a Toyota believer. They are doing well with their hybrids. And hybrids make a lot of sense where charging stations are ...
unreliable ... at best.

 

[Taylor57]

I may look at a hybrid when my Kona ICE lease is up this December. I have also had good luck with Audi. Just seems like it's harder to find a good buy these days. There used to be great lease deals everywhere!

 

[PedalUma]

Show us new ebike build

Okay. This is a bike packing build. The frame has a spit seat stay and horizontal drops so that it could run a Gates belt. Every component is top shelf and it has a specially prepped cargo grade mid-drive. I love the bar. I did think the chicken pic was funny. Yesterday I gave a kid a chicken sounds emulator prepped to attach to his handle bar. This is a chicken town. The kid will use it when riding in the Butter & Eggs day parade April 20th.

 

[PedalUma]

How many times can you sell your pigeons on eBay?

 

[DaveMatthews]

How many times can you sell your pigeons on eBay?

Depends on how many you have.

 

[PedalUma]

Depends on how many you have.

97 homing pigeons at $135 each. They fly 1,000 km at 100 kph. It is all about rate of return.

 

[Rome]

Wtf who would buy a pigeon for $135. I can buy a set of Schwalbe Eddy Current for that price. Return is good I'm almost 2000 miles on my Schwalbe.
Wait I take picture of my odometer.

 

[Art Deco]

97 homing pigeons at $135 each. They fly 1,000 km at 100 kph. It is all about rate of return.

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They are trained to return "home" hence they can each be resold repeatedly...

 

[PedalUma]

At $135 each, they will return home from 1,000 km in about ten-hours; rest a few days to do it again. 135 x 97 birds = $13,000. $13,000 x 52 = $681,000 per year.

Does anyone want to buy my flock to implement this revenue source themselves?

 

[PedalUma]

@Jeremy McCreary might recall that in San Clemente they had a pigeon problem, so they soaked grain in white lightning and spread it out. The pigeons found the food, fell over and went to sleep. They were scooped up and put in burlap sacks and driven to the Arizona desert and released. They were all back in two days!
What made me think of this silliness is that on Monday I was riding a bike past grain elevators when I saw a falcon fly behind a wall hidden and then it popped up, flipped and nabbed a pigeon in a burst of feathers. In Greek mythology those raptors were symbols of Zeus and witnessing that sort of capture is an omen for justice.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

@Jeremy McCreary might recall that in San Clemente they had a pigeon problem, so they soaked grain in white lightning and spread it out. The pigeons found the food, fell over and went to sleep. They were scooped up and put in burlap sacks and driven to the Arizona desert and released. They were all back in two days!

Hey, my wife's been threatening to do that to me lately! Maybe that's where she got the idea.

Of course, it'd take me a lot more than 2 days to get back. Scariest part is the burlap, though — so itchy!

 

[PedalUma]

Scariest part is the burlap

Junípero Serra wore a hair shirt that never got washed. No wonder he didn't have much of a sex life. That would make a great story. She gets her husband drunk and rolls him out of the car and into the desert. I love it. Then he has to make his way back.